Felicia "Snoop" Pearson: My life is like "The Wire"

Brian Lehrer of WNYC talks to Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, actress on The Wire. Listen to the whole interview here:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2007/12/14/segments/90442

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[Ksent]

How my hair look, Mike?

[briantotse3]

PTSD makes a big difference in how you carry yourself, and how you can act.

You can tell just by her face, her eyes, her voice, that she's seen things that people shouldn't. She saw shit when she was ten that nobody should ever see in their whole lives. Now, I don't know if she has that shit, but the stuff she's seen and the places she's been certainly wouldn't preclude her from having it.

[swede6666]

@huduho but you're right, they are sucked into it

[swede6666]

@huduho I never made the distinction of race. I'm talking specifically about those who are born in impoverished inner city areas, and participate in local crime circles there. These kids are immobilized by poverty, and have little opportunity to enhance themselves. Schools are closed down and are poorly funded. So where do they get a job without a skill set? And IF they manage to get a minimum wage job, the market is highly volatile and a sustaining work will be nearly impossible. Its broken

[huduho]

@huduho and even without schools you can study a profession or start a small buisness like other people,and for"Their reality" who is they? the people in baltimore(including white people)or all the people with african origin in USA? the main problem is the black stereotype and the "ghetto" bullshit that pulling kids into world of crime and make them think that is what they should do cuz all there friends doing that and cuz people love and accept this"ghetto"shit instad realize that is bullshit

[huduho]

@swede6666 "You're born in a world..."these people born in USA and lets take baltimore as the city they live in at,these people has schools in baltimore("kids who go to school aren't taken seriously"its not even an aligation)and if they dont like these schools they can learn in other schools outside of baltimore,and ther is many white people ther to.many people dont know ther fathers from divorce/death and dont have problems in schools.and like i said you can learn in school like anybody else

[swede6666]

@huduho You're born in a world where kids who go to school aren't taken seriously, and the education that IS offered is poorly funded and lacks the proper amount of staff to teach effectively. You're father is dead, he was killed before you learned to speak. Your mom has a problem with addiction, and you can only rely on your friends. You lack the skills to get a job, and even if you do, you're still poor, so you make easy money selling drugs. Their reality is not your reality. Accept it.

[huduho]

@swede6666 what they cant do that anybody else can? they can work,study,start a business and many other things.but its not about their economic situation or what happen in ther life its about the fact that many of them simply love this image and stereotype of the "nigga" and as u can see it can somtimes build the career of some people..

[swede6666]

@huduho you may not be racist, but you sure are classist. You talk about 'ghetto' with such resentment, but you should realize its a product of unevenly distributed wealth and opportunity. Wealthy people steal life from these people, so that they can afford marble floors, yachts, and jewelry. I'm dramatizing my point, but like The Wire, its still reality.

[huduho]

and on why i say that her,look around you all this interview,comments,and all of her "career"

is all about this "ghetto" bullshit.

[huduho]

@Vesperidone of course its real people that why its so stupid all this "ghetto" shit and the people that love this,and its not about location its about acting and being "nigga" (the black gangster stereotype)as u should know.all the "ghetto" shit promoting stereotypes of black people when u like at or not and i not a racist if i say that.

[Vesperidone]

@huduho That's all real people actually talk in some parts of the United States. Movies are based off of that; not the other way around. I don't know what the fuck kind of stupid thoughts you have swirling around in your head but I can't imagine you've based your drivel off of anything more than shit you saw in movies and heard in music you don't like.